Curriculum Vitae

Ing. Václav Dostál, Sc.D.

Email: vaclav.dostal@fs.cvut.cz

Born: April 10^th, 1976

Sex: Male

Nationality: Czech

Citizenship: Czech Republic

Education

Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.

January 2004, (Nuclear Engineering Department)

Ing., Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

January 2000, (Power Engineering Department)

Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Fall term, 1999, (Laboratory of Applied Thermodynamics) as an international student of the program “SOCRATES”

Current Position

Associate professor

Department of Energy engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

Previous Experience

Visiting Researcher, (JSPS fellowship) April 2005 to August 2007

Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors, Tokyo University of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Research interests:

Nuclear reactor systems, nuclear reactor safety, heat transfer and fluid flow especially in the core of a nuclear reactor, small modular reactors, supercritical carbon dioxide cycle, heat transfer in a fusion reactor, fusion power plant and its thermodynamic cycles.

Skills

Languages

Czech (mother tongue), English – fluent, Russian – intermediate, Japanese – intermediate

Computers

Operating systems: Windows, Linux, Unix

Software: Vipre, Cobra – advanced user,

Front/Flow, Gridgen, FLUENT, GAMBIT – intermediate user,

MCNP, Monteburns, Origen – beginner

Programming language: Fortran – advanced